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7.0

♡ 12

77%

Carol Reed Director

Hildegard Knef as Bettina Mallison

James Mason as Ivo Kern

Walter Bluhm as Money Changer

Claire Bloom as Susanne Mallison

A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.

Trapeze

1956

6.8

♡ 10

75%

Carol Reed Director

Paul Faivre as Bartender

Thomas Gomez as Bouglione

Burt Lancaster as Mike Ribble

Katy Jurado as Rosa O'Flynn

A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.

Our Man in Havana

1959

7.2

♡ 7

british secret service

Carol Reed Director

Maureen O'Hara as Beatrice Severn

Ernie Kovacs as Capt. Segura

John Le Mesurier as Louis - Waiter

Aileen Lewis as Nightclub Patron

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.

The Key

1958

6.7

♡ 7

58%

Carol Reed Director

Trevor Howard as Captain Chris Ford

Michael Caine as Seaman

Sophia Loren as Stella

Aileen Lewis as Woman With Baby in Air Raid Shelter

In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to captain one of these tugs. He's given a key by a fellow tugboat-man -- a key to an apartment and its pretty female resident. Should something happen to the friend, Ross can use the key.

Outcast of the Islands

1951

6.9

♡ 3

52%

Carol Reed Director

Peter Illing as Alagappan

James Kenney as Ramsey

Marne Maitland as Ships Mate

Trevor Howard as Willems

After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.

A Kid for Two Farthings

1955

6.4

♡ 7

67%

Carol Reed Director

Alfie Bass as Alf the Bird Man

Bruce Beeby as Policeman

Diana Dors as Sonia

Sam Kydd as (uncredited)

Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.

The Running Man

1963

6.5

♡ 6

62%

insurance investigator

investigator

spain

Thriller

Carol Reed Director

Ramsay Ames as Madge Penderby

Fernando Rey as Police Official

Fortunio Bonanova as Spanish Bank Manager

Alan Bates as Stephen

An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.

It Happened in Paris

1935

5.6

♡ 1

Comedy

Romance

Carol Reed Director

Nancy Burne as Jacqueline

Jean Gillie as Musette

John Loder as Paul

Warren Jenkins as Raymond

A British millionaire's son travels to France to study art, and falls in love in Paris.

Mutiny on the Bounty

1962

7.2

♡ 24

70%

Carol Reed Director

Trevor Howard as Captain William Bligh

Duncan Lamont as John Williams

Gordon Jackson as Seaman Edward Birkett

Richard Harris as Seaman John Mills

The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as possible, using any means to keep up a strict discipline. When they arrive at Tahiti, it is like a paradise for the crew, something completely different than the living hell aboard the ship. On the way back to England, officer Fletcher Christian becomes the leader of a mutiny.

The Public Eye

1972

6.9

♡ 5

58%

Comedy

Drama

Carol Reed Director

Michael Jayston as Charles

James Villiers as Dinner Guest

Neil McCarthy as Parkinson

Jack Watling as Wealthy Client

A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965

7.2

♡ 15

86%

79%

Carol Reed Director

Andrea Giordana as Michelangelo's Assistant

Piero Pastore as Nobleman on Battlefield

Gino Marturano as Soldier

Nino Musco as Tavern Customer

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

Night Train to Munich

1940

7.2

♡ 4

89%

72%

concentration camp prisoner

prague, czech republic

Romance

Thriller

War

Carol Reed Director

Austin Trevor as Capt. Prada

Basil Radford as Charters

Roland Culver as Roberts

Howard Marion-Crawford as SS Officer Checking Passes

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.

The Third Man

1949

8.1

♡ 90

99%

Carol Reed Director

Geoffrey Keen as British Military Policeman

Joseph Cotten as Holly Martins

Trevor Howard as Maj. Calloway

Harold Ayer as Soldier

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Oliver!

1968

7.4

♡ 28

90%

81%

based on play or musical

Carol Reed Director

Oliver Reed as Bill Sikes

Kenneth Cranham as Noah Claypole

Harry Fielder as Smart Gent

Helen Worth as Urchin

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.

Odd Man Out

1947

ira (irish republican army)

7.6

♡ 10

100%

noir

Thriller

Carol Reed Director

Kathleen Ryan as Kathleen Sullivan

Robert Newton as Lukey

Geoffrey Keen as Soldier

Arthur Hambling as Tom

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

The Fallen Idol

1948